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Women's Perceived Inferiority is Not Biological But Social

This essay consists of six pages in which the argument that the perceived inferiority of women is based in society and not biology...

Being 'American' Concept Creation

In five pages the ways in which 'being American' as a nationality concept are considered in an examination of four authors of earl...

Social Problems Experienced by Battered Women

There are social pressures and prejudices which battered women face. In this twenty page research paper that includes fourteen bib...

Three Decades of American Freshmen

In nineteen pages this paper examines the changing American freshman class in a literature overview that includes demographics, hi...

1800 to 1820 Fashions for Women

In ten pages this research paper presents an overview of the Regency Period of the 19th century as reflected in women's fashions a...

Somalian Women and Islam

This paper consists of five pages and discusses Somalian women's social position and how it is influenced by the values of Islam. ...

Women's Social Status and Menstrual Blood

In eight pages this paper discusses menstrual blood, also known as 'the curse,' and how it influences female social status. Five ...

Women's Alcohol Consumption in the 19th Century

This 5 page paper examines the extent of alcohol use among women in the 19th century. The writer pays special attention to the tem...

Two Poems Featuring Women by William Carlos Williams

American women's social roles are considered in William Carlos Williams' poems 'Portrait of a Lady' and 'The Young Housewife' in a...

Comparison of Alexander Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock' and Jane Austen's Mansfield Park

In five pages this essay presents a comparative literary analysis of these works in terms of how women's social behavior is portra...

Women and the Impact of the Renaissance

In six pages this paper examines the European Renaissance in a consideration of how it positively and negatively impacted women's ...

Women's Changing Roles and Movie Remakes

In five pages this research paper examines 3 motion picture remakes and how this reflects women's changing social roles. Six sour...

William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and Elizabethan Women

beautiful and good-tempered woman and Baptista is aware that will have no difficulty in finding her a husband; however, Katherine ...

Family and The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

own time. It was that goal of establishing principles that formed his viewpoint regarding the character of a person and how a pers...

Woman's Shelter Worker's Views on Marital Rape

violence and an increase in the number of reported "date" rapes has led to the need for a social and legal response to the issue o...

Status and Role of Women in 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

so "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" are rare glimpses into the feminine status in what was essentially a strict Greek patriarchy. Wh...

Theories of Henrik Ibsen and Soren Kierkegaard

This paper examines concepts of paradox and passion, women's social position, and individual autonomy in the philosophy of Soren K...

How Women Are Treated in the Writings of Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares how the social irony of women's treatment shine through in 'A Modest Proposal' by J...

William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, and Women's Social Status

In eleven pages this paper discusses these plays by William Shakespeare in terms of the social status of women as depicted by the ...

Literature and Women's Social Status

close to his sister, one has to contemplate the possibility of incest which adds to the seductiveness that many authors attribute ...

Three Novels on Women as Victims of Violence

In five pages this research paper analyzes how women were victimized by social oppression and violence in Edwidge Danticat's Breat...

Historical Perspective on Women's Workplace Fashion

the social elite where the yuppies of the 1980s went quite the opposite way, showing off their designer suits. Steindorf suggests ...

Passive Women and Active Men in Ibsen and Pope

In a paper consisting of 5 pages Henrik Ibsen's 'Ghosts' and Alexander Pope's 'Rape of the Lock' are comparatively examined in ter...

Society of Somalia, Women's Status, and the Values of Islam

This paper consists of five pages and discusses how in Somalia the values of Islam are directly related to women's social status. ...

Women in the U.S. and Saudi Arabia and Changing Social Roles

In eight pages women and their changing social roles are considered in a comparative analysis of women in the U.S. and their Saudi...

Roles of Women in the Works of Euripides and Aeschylus

In a paper consisting of 5 pages this paper examines how women's social roles are depicted in Medea by Euripides and Agamemnon by ...

Nineteenth Century Woman as Defined by Jane Austen

This paper consists of four pages and examines the social, domestic, perceived, and realistic definitions of women's roles as repr...

Classical Greek Literature and Women's Tragic Marriages

Aeschylus introduces a complete reversal of gender roles, placing the character of Clytemnestra in a ruling role over Argos in the...

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

up in the feminist movement. The authors insightful notions of patriarchal elitism, which are particularly apparent in chapter 3 ...

Inward Lives of 2 19th Century Women

and "one day could not explain some term of horsemanship to her that she had come across in a novel" (Flaubert 29). Emmas disappoi...